The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-16
Capt. Jack Crawford on Wild Bill.

wild Bill was a good shot, was he
not?"
with the siX-Shooter he was simply
wonderful. In my entertainment l
| give an illustration of a double shot he
made out at Hayes City, Kas., in the
| early days, when he shot two soldiers,
one in front of him and one directly
behind him, each endeaYoring to shoot
him before he could draw his gun. He
killed one and mortally wounded the
| other, and the two reports of his re-
volYer seemed almost as one. The
marvellous feat was the talk of the
| country for a long time. In fact,
when came by there few days ago,
one of the old residents who witnessed
the killing mentioned it to me, and
said he could scarcely believe it even
after seeing it. Bill never missed his
mark. 1 have seen him take pistol
in each hand and fire with right and
left pistol at can thrown in the air,
hitting it with both bullets. BY the
way, heard very funny story told
on Bill some time ago. If you remem-
Der, he married Mrs. Agnes Lake,
widow of Lake, the circus man. Bill
fairly wOrshipped his wife, but despite
his great love for her, she never could
induce him to quit drinking. He would
come home full of bad whisky, and one
day Mrs. Hickok said to him:
Bill, if you don't quit this drink
ing pretty soon, you will actually be-
gin to see monkeys
"'Monkeys?' said he, what do you
mean, little one?'
Why, you know, when people back |
East drink too much of the kind of |
whisky they get back there, they see |
snakes, but this awful stuff out here |
makes them see monkeys
bill laughed at her, and did not |
give the matter second thought, lit
tie dreaming that she had put up a
job to break him of his Incorporate |
habits. There was tame monkey in
the town-Cheyenne, believe it was
and Mrs. Hickok had induced its
owner to loan it to her for a night.
Bill came home that night comfortably
drunk, and after he had gone to sleep
his wife secured the monkey and
chained it to the foot of the bed. Then,
turning down the light little, she too
retired and awaited results. Bill woke
up in the night burning with thirst
and raised up into a sitting posture,
to get out of bed and get a
drink of water. There, perched up on
the footboard, was the monkey, star
ing him in the face with hideous grim
aces. He rubbed his bleared ewes.
looked again, and horrible suspicion
came into his befuddled brain. Had
his wife told him the truth? Did he
really have 'em? Finally he sprang
out on the floor, seized his Six-shooter.
which lay on table near, leveled it at
the grinning creature and said: II
Now, old man, if you are mon
key, you're in - of a fix. At the
same instant he fired, and the monkey | :
fell over in the agonies of death. His c
wife, who had been watching the work c
ng of her scheme, sprang up from her :
bed with a scream, and Bill, turning =
o her with broad smile of the most il
intense satisfaction, said:
"'Little woman, congratulate me, ?
or l have just had wonderful escape. +,
amt as drunk as 1 thought 1 was. O
N there's a monkey layin' there on a.
he floor that'll never intrude itself in Il
o the domestic felicity of another 81
Apply family an make a gentleman | "
hink he's gothic jim-jams. Ok. G. b
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